To
report a threat of school violence before the instigator has a chance to act on
his/her intentions, please contact Speak Up
at 1-866-SPEAKUP (that is 1-866-773-2587)

I would like to thank all of the Survivors and others who have contacted me
with information about school violence. I do appreciate the help, for, without their help, several of these
occurrences would not be here.

One other thing I would like to ask of those who read over this list of
tragedies is this: If you can provide me with any more details of any of these
incidents, I would greatly appreciate the information. Or, if you know of
another violent act at a school that is not on this list, please forward that
information to me as well. The link to my e-mail is above.

West
Franklin Street Elementary School, Anderson, South Carolina

Wednesday,
August 31, 1988

First-year principal Dennis Ray Hepler
worked late today preparing his school for the fall semester. As the
night grew long, all his preparations were done,
and he left about 10p.m. Unfortunately, he didn't get too far
as three men, Kevin Dean Young, William Henry Bell and John Glenn, accosted
Dennis on the grounds of the school. At gunpoint, they robbed him of his
wallet (which contained $67.00). Kevin, 20, then fired a fatal shot from
the .25-caliber pistol into Dennis' back. After the 35-year-old Dennis
fell to the ground, William fired another shot into his head. Kevin, William, and John then got back into the car,
driven by Arthur Ray Jones and went to buy cocaine with their ill-gotten
gains. In 1989, Kevin was sentenced
to death for this attack. Another jury in 1993 also sentenced him to death for
this attack. William Bell also received the death sentence. John Glenn was convicted of armed robbery and accessory to
murder. He is serving a 35-year sentence. Arthur pleaded guilty to
an accessory charge. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail with all but 7
1/2 months suspended. In 1995, Dennis's widow, Brenda, died of breast cancer,
leaving their three young daughters to be raised by an aunt. On Friday,
November 3, 2000, at 6:18 p.m. Kevin was
executed by lethal injection. At the time of Kevin's death, West
Franklin Elementary School was no longer a school, but a community center.
City officials remembered Dennis in 1992 by naming a city park after him.

Source: clarkprosecutor.org - Kevin
Dean Young # 670

Lincoln
High School, Dallas, Texas

Friday,
September 2, 1988

Two groups of teens fired handguns at each other across Lincoln High
School's parking lot today. Caught in the crossfire were 15-year-olds
Mark Lee and LaSonya Betts. Mark was struck in the hip while LaSonya was
struck in the abdomen when the bullets began flying after a pep rally at the
school. Both teens were transported to Baylor University Medical Center and
listed in fair condition on Saturday. Police arrested an unnamed
17-year-old male former student of Lincoln in connection with these shootings.

Source: Dallas Morning News -
Suspects Sought in School Shooting

Montefiore
School, Chicago, Illinois

Thursday,
September 22, 1988

Mentally unstable 40-year-old
unemployed beautician Clemmie Henderson murdered Robert Quinn and John Van Dyke
at an auto parts store, wounded garbage collector Laplose Chestnut, then invaded a school for troubled boys and
killed Arthur Baker, a custodian. He was also able to kill Policewoman
Irma Ruiz, injure Policeman Greg Jaglowski before being shot to death at the
school on Thursday. His weapon of choice was a .38-caliber handgun.

THOSE WHO
DIED:

Arthur Baker, 33

John Van Dyke, 41

killer Clemmie Henderson, 40

Robert Quinn, 26

Irma Ruiz, 40

THE
INJURED:

Laplose Chestnut, Jr., 34

Greg Jaglowski, 38

Oakland
Elementary School, Greenwood, South Carolina

Monday,
September 26, 1988

James William Wilson Jr. had been in and out of Self Memorial Hospital's
psychiatric ward for the past eight
months. He told his father he liked going there because the
anti-depression drug Xanax was really good. So good, in fact, that
whenever he got a new prescription, he would go through it in about a week and
a half. Unfortunately, his family's insurance ran out, and he stopped going to the ward. The good-feeling drug
Xanax may have offset the bad feelings he got when his classmates teased him
for being overweight and dressing funny. This morning 19-year-old James
left his maternal grandmother's house in Abbeville with a 9-round .22-caliber
revolver. He stopped off at Sky City, a local department store, and
bought one box of shells, then quickly changed his mind and told the cashier,
"Better make it two." He left the store and the town and headed to
Greenwood, where he stopped at Oakland Elementary School. James walked in
the front door of the school and into the cafeteria where about 100 first
graders were eating lunch. It was around 11:30 a.m. when he pulled out
the revolver and opened fire on the students. First-grade teacher Eleanor Hodge and two students were wounded with those first nine
bullets. James then began walking down the hall to the classrooms but stopped first in a girl's
restroom to reload. As he left the restroom, he ran into physical
education teacher Kat Finkbeiner who was trying to stop him. He shot her
in the hand and mouth and quickly entered third-grade
teacher Patsy Higginbotham's classroom. He shot at her, but missed, and the bullet lodged itself in the
chalkboard. "They're after me!" he screamed and fired off the
remaining shots at the students in the classroom, injuring six of them.
Third grader Shequilla Bradley was fatally wounded. Empty of bullets once
again, James dropped the gun when Kat entered the room. She forced him to
surrender. James raised his hands and offered no resistance, even when
the police arrived. Paramedics transported the injured students to the
hospital, one of which was Tequila Thomas. She never regained
consciousness after being shot and died at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, September
29, 1988. James's father described his son as a terrible-tempered
hyperactive recluse fascinated by crime stories. James was kicked out of his
home when he was 16. When James had heard of Tequila's death, he said he
was sorry and that he had patterned this school shooting after Laurie Wasserman
Dann's rampage in Winnetka from the spring. On April 27, 1989, Jamie
pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of murder and several counts of
assault and battery. He was sentenced
to death. Jamie has filed numerous appeals since then, and so far all of
them have been denied.

At 10:42 a.m. a man wearing camouflage pants and t-shirt with a
"punk" haircut (spiked on the top and shaved on the sides) stood up
from behind the bushes on the other side of school's fence. He fires a
rifle three times upon the students on the playground before fleeing the
scene. 9-year-old Leah Wilbanks, a third-grader, was doing a cartwheel
when bullet passed through her chest and stopped in her upper right arm.
She was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center and treated for the
single gunshot wound. On Friday, October 28, 1998, doctors removed the bullet
from Leah's arm. Leah grew up, became a teacher and now works at
Mascotte Elementary School. She married and had a healthy baby boy in
early spring 2007.

Eight teachers, 20 students, and 13
cheerleaders were leaving Ribault Junior High School after a football game this
evening when their bus was pelted with
gunfire and rocks. The bullets and rocks struck the bus on the drivers
side, with the bullets penetrating all the way through the bus. Five
girls suffered minor injuries from broken glass.

Source: Miami Herald - Gunshots,
Rocks Hit School Bus

Istrouma
Senior High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Tuesday,
October 4, 1988

Evelena B. Moore opened fire on
cafeteria worker Beatrice Hills in the school's parking lot today.
Beatrice, 30, was not injured. Police arrested Evelena and charged her with attempted second-degree murder. Evelena was back at work the next day at Galvez
Elementary as a special education teacher. Ralph Ricardo, the
superintendent of schools in Ascension Parish, said that the school board has no
provisions to dismiss a teacher charged with attempted murder. Evelena, 33, will remain on the job until she
pleads guilty or is convicted of the
charge.

Arilyn Jean Lelande, 29, invaded Angela Jean Brown's sixth-grade classroom
today. Arilyn pointed a handgun at the ten children around the
35-year-old teacher and told them to move back. She then said, "I
want my money," to the seated teacher. Arilyn then fired several shots at Angela, hitting her at least
once in the abdomen. Angela was taken
to the Mobile Infirmary where she was listed
in serious but stable condition. An hour later, police arrested Arilyn and charged her with first-degree
assault. This was not a case of
mistaken identity or something like that, but of an ongoing domestic problem
between Arilyn and Angela, who are
sisters. Most Pure Heart of Mary School is a Catholic parochial school.

Serrocko James Henry, 15, Edell Story,
Jerry Wilson, and DeVon Johnson-Curry, all 12-years-old, were taking a shortcut
through the schoolyard just after midnight. They had left Serrocko's
aunt's home to make a phone call and were returning to her home near the
school. On their way to the phone, Serrocko
used a baseball bat to smash several windows at the school. This tripped the school's burglar alarm.
When the alarm went off, police dispatched Deputy Jan P. Zeboski and Sacramento
City Unified School District policeman
Stanley P. Hong to investigate. When they arrived, the 35-year-old deputy
heard more glass breaking. Edell was taking his turn breaking the windows
of the school. The two officers ran down an outside hallway toward the
sound. In a dimly lit intersection of two exterior hallways, Deputy Zebosoki and the four boys collided, Edell
still carrying a baseball bat. Jan fired one shot from his 9mm service
gun at them. The bullet struck down Serrocko,
a Sacramento High School sophomore. Serrocko
died at the school with a bullet wound to his chest. The other three boys
were detained for questioning and then
released to their parents. In the morning, detectives found half a dozen broken
windows at the school and quickly boarded them up. Three days later,
Sheriff Glenn Craig said that Deputy Zeboski was within the policy of the department. Therefore the homicide was
justifiable.

Rick Mahoney, a history teacher at Cooper High School, showed 16-year-old
Mason Staggs a grade indicating that he was failing history. And as we
all know, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Mason had already failed the class once. Today, Rick was caught off-guard when Mason entered his
classroom singing "Peter Rabbit." Mason quickly pulled out a
.22 caliber derringer and shot Rick in the face, severely wounding him.
After the shooting, Mason went to a nearby park. He went fishing and used
marijuana. He was arrested.
Rick survived this shooting and now teaches at the town's RAC (Re-Assignment
Center for "troubled" kids). At his trial, Mason was found
guilty and sentenced to 14 years in prison. That verdict was thrown out after he served seven years
because the appeals court found that he had incorrectly been charged as an adult for the crime. Mason was retried in 1997. The second jury
found he should serve ten years, meaning
that he had less than two years left to serve.

Source: Two visitors to this web site

Atlantic
Shores Christian (High) School, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Friday,
December 16, 1988

On Friday, Nicholas Elliott, 15, opened fire with a SWD Cobray M-11
semiautomatic pistol on teachers at his school. His first shots struck Algebra
teacher Karen Farley in the arm; when she went down,
he killed her at point blank range. Nicholas then injured Sam
Marino. He turned the Cobray toward
his classmates, but the gun jammed and he was quickly subdued by M. Hutchinson
Matteson, a teacher before he could fire
another round. Nicholas is serving life in prison plus 114 years for this
assault.

THE ONE
WHO DIED:

Karen Farley, 41

THE
INJURED:

Sam Marion, 37

Cleveland
Elementary School, Stockton, California

Tuesday,
January 17, 1989

Patrick Edward Purdy, 26 (also listed as Patrick Eugene Purdy, 24, in some
reports), was a loner and a drifter. This morning he dressed in a shirt
with emblazoned with the Iranian battle cry "Death to the Great Satin
(sic), combat fatigues and a flak vest and then drove to Cleveland Elementary
School, arriving just after 11:30. He parked on the south side of the
school and rigged his car to explode. Then he grabbed two semiautomatic
pistols and a fully automatic AK-47 assault rifle with a bayonet. He walked
across a grassy area to the rear southwest
corner of a portable building. From here he could see about 400-500
first- through third-graders at recess on a 180-foot wide asphalt playground
that was enclosed on two sides by an
L-shaped building, about 250 feet away. From here he opened fire on the
children as they played. He started shooting at 11:40 a.m. He sprayed the
playground several times, then crossed behind the portable building to its southeast
corner and continued to fire at the students. After firing over 60
rounds, killing five students, wounding
29 other students and one second grade
teacher and terrorizing everyone on the playground, Patrick put one of the
pistols, a 9mm, to his head and committed suicide. 37-year-old Janet Geng, the
only teacher wounded in this assault, was on playground duty, and she scrambled to get the kids down, out of the line of
fire. Her leg was shattered by Patrick's
gunfire. When police arrived, they noticed Patrick had named two
of his guns. On his Ak-47, he wrote
the letters "SSA" in white paint. One of the pistols had the
word "victory" written on it as well. The school's student body is
comprised mainly of children from Southeast
Asia.

After being bullied to his limit, a 14-year-old boy shot and killed two of
his classmates today. It is unclear
if the two students killed were the bullies, or just in the right spot at the
wrong time.

Source: Reference.com - List of
School-Related Attacks

Woodrow
Wilson High School, Washington, D. C.

Thursday,
January 26, 1989

Two young men who don't attend Woodrow Wilson High School began arguing with
the students in the cafeteria this afternoon. A few hours later, about
2:30, the two young men returned in a four-wheel drive vehicle, stepped out and
started shooting at the students. Tyrone Whitfield was shot in both his
legs, Kofi Martinez was shot in the right leg, as was Jamal Smith and Lazaro
Santa Cruz was shot in the lip. All
four students were taken to Children's
Hospital for treatment. The next day, police arrested 18-year-old Rodney
Reardon and charged him with four counts of assault to kill. They are
still looking for his accomplice.

Just before classes started this morning, several students were gathered in
the courtyard of A. Maceo Smith when a blue Camaro pulled up with three male
students from South Oak Cliff High School inside. Jerry Henderson, 18,
got out of the Camaro carrying a briefcase and a .22-caliber revolver behind
it. He walked up to where 16-year-old Jerome Lacy and his friends were
standing and said, "You all better get out of the way - I'm going to shoot
him." Jerome had been trying to date Jerry's cousin, and Jerry was upset about that. Jerry fired off five
shots at Jerome as he ran along the wall. Jerome was hit once in the lip
by one of the bullets as it ricocheted off the wall. Jerry then got back
into the Camaro and left the scene.

For months 18-year-old Phillip DeFelice, a senior and budding scientist, was
taunted by his freshman schoolmates. They derided him as a nerd.
Phillip planned his revenge and devised a devious plan. Sunday night
Phillip stole materials from the school's metal shop and began making a
bomb. A friend had given him the gunpowder. When it was completed, the bomb was a foot long, eight
inches wide, had two batteries and a string to connect it to the door of a
school locker. Last night at a banquet at which he received a $500-a-year
state scholarship, he slipped away and planted the bomb in the locker of
15-year-old Brian Kerfoot, one of his tormentors. This morning, when Brian
opened his locker, the bomb exploded but
did not bring about Phillip's desired result. Since the locker was purchased from the lowest bidder, the
rivets failed to contain the blast. The explosion went upward, not
outward. Brian received first- and second-degree burns on his face, arms, and neck. He was treated at Memorial Hospital of Burlington
County in Mount Holly. Phillip was arrested and is charged with attempted aggravated arson, aggravated assault,
second-degree burglary and possession of explosive devices.

Source: The Press of Atlantic City -
Honors Student Taunted by Mates is Charged
with Planting Bomb

University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Tuesday,
July 25, 1989

25-year-old Azizolla Mazooni is a
deserter from the Iranian army. He entered the US illegally several years
ago. He found a home in Sacramento and a girlfriend
in 18-year-old Marjan Mohseninia. The relationship floundered, and Marjan enrolled in the
University of Washington just to get away from Azizolla. He hired private
detectives and found that Marjan not only moved to Seattle but also had a strong friendship with 27-year-old Ebrahim
Sharif-Kashani. Azizolla made the trip from Sacramento to Seattle and found
Marjan and Ebrahim walking near Balmer Hall today. He confronted them and
tried to leave the campus with Marjan, but Ebrahim tried to stop him.
Azizolla pulled out a gun and fired five warning shots into the ground at
Ebrahim, but he kept coming. He fired the next two shots into Ebrahim, killing
him. He then fired four more shots into Marjan, killing her as
well. A police officer was nearby and was able to apprehend Azizolla soon
after the double murder. On May 30, 1990, a jury found Azizolla guilty of
second-degree murder. After serving his time in prison, Azizolla will be deported from the United States.